The company also makes a higher-octane fuel that the FAA selected as one of two finalists in the agency's ongoing Piston Aviation Fuels Initiative process. The PAFI process will conclude with the FAA naming an unleaded replacement for leaded avgas. Swift is "highly confident" the FAA will select it as the unleaded replacement for avgas at the conclusion of the ongoing PAFI process.

"We're extremely confident that our high-octane fuel will obtain fleet-wide approval (from the FAA)," said Swift CEO Chris D'Acosta. "But we knew that process would take time, so we're using UL94 to show pilots the benefits of unleaded fuel in the meantime."

Dave Hirschman

AOPA Pilot Editor at Large

AOPA Pilot Editor at Large Dave Hirschman joined AOPA in 2008. He has an airline transport pilot certificate and instrument and multiengine flight instructor certificates. Dave flies vintage, historical, and Experimental airplanes and specializes in tailwheel and aerobatic instruction.